The control program supports logical names. Using logical names facilitates interactive use of the control program. To distinguish logical names, rpccp* reference pages follow the convention of using all uppercase letters for examples of logical names. Note that OpenVMS logical names are NOT case sensitive. User-defined logical names You can set a logical name to represent values to rpccp. Using a logical name is helpful for specifying a long string such as the following: + A string representation of binding information (binding string) + A string representation of an object or interface UUID (string UUID) + An interface identifier (the interface UUID and version numbers) + The name of a name service entry For example, in the following example, the logical name JANE_CAL represents an object UUID; the target name service entry, /.:/LandS/anthro/Cal_host_2, is in the local cell: $ DEFINE JANE_CAL 47f40d10-e2e0-11c9-bb29-08002b0f4528 $ rpccp rpccp> export -o JANE_CAL /.:/LandS/anthro/Cal_host_2 DCE RPC logical names The dce name syntax is the only syntax currently supported by the DCE Cell Directory Service (CDS). However, the Name Service Interface (NSI) is independent of any specific name service and, in the future, may support name services that use other name syntaxes. When alternative name syntaxes are supported, you can override the standard default with a process-specific default by setting the RPC_DEFAULT_ENTRY_SYNTAX logical name. When this variable is set for a process, the control program uses it to find out the default syntax for the process. You can override this default in any NSI command of the control program by using the -s option to specify an alternative entry syntax. Setting RPC_DEFAULT_ENTRY_SYNTAX requires specifying the integer 3 to indicate the dce syntax. To set RPC_DEFAULT_ENTRY_SYNTAX, use the name=value command to define a logical name. The following command specifies dce as the default name syntax in a login command file: # .login command file # setting dce as default name syntax, RPC_DEFAULT_ENTRY_SYNTAX=3 RPC_DEFAULT_ENTRY For the import command, you can use this environment variable to indicate the entry where the search operation starts. Usually, the starting entry is a profile.